Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social
world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such
as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical
beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains
such facts not merely by relating them to other social facts, but
by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which
the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the
relationship between micro and macro thus is one of the central
concerns of analytical sociology. The approach is a contemporary
incarnation of Robert K. Merton's notion of middle-range theory and
represents a vision of sociological theory as a tool-box of
semi-general theories each of which is adequate for explaining
certain types of phenomena. The Handbook of Analytical Sociology
brings together some of the most prominent sociologists in the
world in a concerted effort to move sociology in a more analytical
and rigorous direction. Some of the chapters focus on action and
interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while
others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and
interactions bring about.
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